A congested computer network has a 0.002 proba- bility of losing a data packet and packet losses

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A congested computer network has a 0.002 proba- bility of losing a data packet and packet losses are independent events. A lost packet must be resent. (a) What is the probability that an e-mail message with 100 packets will need any to be resent? (b) What is the probability that an e-mail message with 3 packets will need exactly one to be resent? (c) If 10 e-mail messages are sent, each with 100 packets, what is the probability that at least one message will need some packets to be resent?
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Applied Statistics And Probability For Engineers

ISBN: 9781118539712

6th Edition

Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger

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